Curious that the picture of the 39gii on the web-page Gilles referenced seems to be the same photo posted here a couple months ago, which has Chinese characters on the soft menus. There is a link on the page to HP's USA web store, but no inkling at all that this calculator even exists. I wish someone who actually knows could explain this.

The information still appears to be pretty sketchy. I would love to hear more. I quite like the 39gs and would love to see that calculator expanded with a more powerful language and even better aplet programming support.

One of my complaints is the need for a one-to-one correspondence between the entries in the VIEWS menu and programs to support those menu entries. A much nicer solution would be passing a parameter to a program and then using an IF statement or a CASE statement to decide what to do next. It would leave the program "folder" much less cluttered. As far as I can tell there is no way to do this with the 39gs.

Some other issues I have they appear to be addressing if we can believe what we are reading: Lack of proper variables names and function calls are two of the current shortcomings of the 39gs.